High Beams Convey Rolls into Lakewood on August 20

There’s always something going on at the iconic 1929 Bendix Building, a bustling commune of art collectives, galleries and design and fashion concerns located in the Los Angeles Fashion District. At least there was until March 2020, when the pandemic shut down coordinated community exhibitions inside the facility.

Looking for ways around the arts lacuna brought on by COVID, like-minded artists Carl Baratta, Dani Dodge, Alanna Marcelletti, Sean Noyce and Katya Usvitsky, each representing a different resident art collective at the Bendix, put their creative minds together to design alternative exhibitions.

Deciding on a nomadic approach with a road-trip theme, they called their collective of collectives High Beams. At first they threw rooftop and drive-through affairs to accommodate…